Toolserver is dead and replaced by toollabs. The toolserver-l list (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l) is still around and should be closed down. It hardly has any activity anymore, see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/ . The list should not be deleted to keep archives around.
I don't think this needs any discussion, if anyone disagrees, please speak up here. I'll advertise this task on the toolserver-l list.
Looks like someone already started doing this:
Dear sender, this mailing list has been closed. Please use the list labs-l to discuss topics regarding ToolLabs. Cheers Mailman Mailing List Manager
@Nosy79 ping me on IRC when you got a minute? let's do these missing steps to close the list as mentioned above by @Multichill
i used John's disable_list shell script on this list:
@fermium:/usr/local/sbin# ./disable_list toolserver-l toolserver-l disabled. Archives should be available at current location, all mail should be moderated and the list should not be on the listinfo page.
and removed all >500 subscribers with:
fermium:/var/lib/mailman/bin# ./remove_members -a toolserver-l
eh, forgot the "last mail to list" to announce it. re-added members, set the variable goodbye_msg to a custom message linking back to this. re-unsubscribed everybody. so every member should have received a custom mail that won't show up in archive.
resolving
Thanks @Dzahn . Is it worth documenting the steps you took so we have a checklist for proper decommissioning of a mailman list?